New bunny...again!

Even since I got my little girl bunny, I knew she needed a friend.  I was checking the Los Angeles animal shelters almost daily to find the perfect little boyfriend for her.  After two failed attempts (I got there too late and the one I wanted was already claimed)...I found him.

I kept them separate for the first week, then began to introduce them to each other.  That did not start out well. Chasing, light biting...my girl bunny wanted new boy bunny to know that she's in charge.

Meeting in the bathroom

But then, magically, last weekend...

My bunnies are now totally in love.  They are side-by-side almost every time I give them free reign of the apartment.  Today they took a nap, with little gray boy bunny so stretched out and sleepy while girl bunny licked his face.

From initial meeting until cuddling, it only took three weeks. I am a surprisingly great bunny bonder.

My second "Mythbusters" episode aired!

Mythbusters "Battle of the Sexes" finally aired on Sunday, April 22! So now I can finally talk about it...

I really should have been better prepared for this.  Who can more efficiently pack a car for a roadtrip in under eight minutes?  All those years of my life playing Tetris!—but seriously, who packs two dozen eggs, a piñata, and a large cardboard tube on a roadtrip?  I packed those rectangular suitcases into the trunk like nobody's business, but the rest of the random stuff...forget it.  I threw the last item into the car when they called time.

...and that's all they showed of me this time!

10K - I DID IT!

I did it!  I completed the Hollywood 10K!  I didn't run in the four weeks before the race.  I still hate running.  But I did it!

I left home at 6:00am, anticipating street closures and parking issues.  I meant to park at Hollywood & Highland, entering from Orange...but once I took my 101 exit, I couldn't find Orange with all the closures.  Then, somehow with my detours, I ended up in Burbank.  There I was, driving past Warner Bros studios...clearly not where I wanted to be.  After a forty-minute excursion, I gave up parking in Hollywood, went to the Universal Metro parking lot, and took the Red Line one stop to Hollywood/Highland. (Why didn't I just do that in the fist place?!)

I finally got where I needed to be and waited.  Once I arrived, I was glad to be there...but throughout the night, I definitely considered skipping it.  A bottle of wine and four hours of sleep the night before definitely made sleeping in pretty appealing.  I knew I'd regret not going.  I felt fine, though, and I got more excited as we approached the start.

Then it happened!  I started running a 10K!  I thought I was doing well...then looked at my watch.  Only six minutes into it.  Not even a mile into my 6.2 miles.  Oops.  I did a bit of a run/walk for the first half, which was fine.  I reached the halfway-point turn-around at thirty minutes...and then I kept running.  I ran 20-25 minutes straight after that!  It was a slow little mini-jog, but I didn't stop that pace!  I only walked for a minute or two once I saw the finish line in the distance, so I could prepare for my glorious finish.

AND I FINISHED PRETTY WELL!  I almost sprinted the final thirty seconds or so.  I felt like a gazelle.  Or a Kenyan.  I ran and ran and I finished a 10K!

Running update

I still hate running, so this is not going well.  My 10K is two and a half weeks away...and I haven't gone running in about that same amount of time. Alexa and I started a plan to hold each other accountable for running/gym time.  We have a shared Google Doc to track our runs, and decided we'd compete for total distance—run/walk three days a week, for minimum twenty minutes each time, and log our miles.  It was working for awhile...then she temporarily stopped due to injury, and without racing her for distance (I like winning things!), I stopped going too.  Bad.

I have to run over six miles soon!  And then I have to run over thirteen miles in a few months!  RARH.

TITANIC 3D

Yesterday I saw Titanic 3D.  I got advance screening passes and went alone.

I never got to see Titanic in theaters originally—I didn't see it until a few years later when my family rented the movie. Seeing it on a big screen...and in 3D!...made it even more visually stunning. The grand scale of the ship, the costumes, even the background people.

It. Was. Awesome.
Go see it in theaters in April.

Registered for my half-marathon...and a 10K

So...I'm registered for the Disneyland Half-Marathon now.  Guess I'm really doing this.

Also registered for the Hollywood 10K in April.  If I have to run to train for the big race...I might as well get a cool star medal from them, too.

I still hate running.

VIVA LAS VEGAS!

I did it! I went on vacation, and I did Vegas with my lifelong best friend!

And if I may say...we did it well.

We had been planning this trip since the summer—her boyfriend's friends were coming out to Vegas for CES, and we were going to join them. I arrived on Monday, after a rushed departure from work and a little craziness at LAX.  When I landed at McCarran International Airport, I was greeted with a text message instructing me not to take a shuttle to the hotel...because they were on their way to pick me up in a convertible. A red Eclipse convertible.

We met the rest of the boys back at the hotel and came up with a game plan.  Night 1: Let's hit the strip!  We all got dressed up—us girls in little dresses, and the guys wore full suits.  Kept it classy, with the guys rolling Entourage-style. First up was the Cosmopolitan, followed by Paris, followed by the biggest slot machine I've ever seen!  We all took turns pulling the big lever, but no big win. Eventually, we ended up taking a limo from Bellagio back to our hotel—with eight people, it was cheaper than taking two or three cabs (and far classier).

Our well-dressed entourage at Fremont and in front of Paris...and giant gambling!

We got back to the hotel and went in search of food—after seeing posters in elevators and billboards advertising steak and shrimp specials, that was my mission. One of the guys headed up my "steak and shrimp" mission...eventually settling on a prime rib buffet. I'll take it!

Michael Jackson estate auction

I love Michael Jackson.  I remember already being a fan when he had the Free Willy footage in his "Will You Be There" music video in 1993/1994.  I remember celebrating his acquittal in 2005.  And I was outside UCLA hospital after he died in 2009, and went to the makeshift memorial outside the family home the next day.

So who's shocked that I was interested in the auction of items from his rented house?

The auction house was open to the public for viewing, so I went after work one day.  They had it set up like a real home, with the furniture arranged in little formal groupings. The whole thing was very formal—I felt out of place in my yoga pants and hoodie. There were only a few people in there, and I felt like the staff was watching everyone. I can't really blame them when some of the furniture was valued at $5,000+. BUT...some stuff was valued at under $100. I could afford something small!

I looked through the online catalog, made a list of all sub-$200 items, and registered to bid. On auction day, I logged on for the live online bids and watched a stream of the proceedings.

AND I WON SOMETHING.

Yesterday I went to the warehouse to pick up my handblown Italian glass vases. They are beautiful and they are mine. I made a grown-up estate auction purchase, and now I have things from MJ's final home. An all-around excellent deal.